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heretofore authorized. "Or the said Commissioners of Aber-
deen iu their discretion are hereby authorized and empowered,
for the purpose of meeting the interest and sinking fund
charge on said issue of bonds, and for maintaining, repairing
and operating- said sewerage system, including overhead ex-
penses and proper depreciation allowances, to make and charge
such service rates as it may deem necessary against all prop-
erties having a connection with any sewer under their owner-
ship. Said rates shall be uniform throughout the town of
Aberdeen, but subject to change from time to time, as
necessary."

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, the Commissioners
of Aberdeen, for the purpose of projecting, constructing and
establishing a sewerage system, for the collection, transmis-
sion and disposal of the house and other sewerage and drain-
age of the town of Aberdeen, including either as a combined
or separate feature of said system, the collection, transmission
and disposal of storm and ground water, respectively, are
hereby clothed with all powers necessary or proper for such
purposes, or either of them, among which shall be the follow-
ing, that is to say:

1. To make all such preliminary investigation and to do all
such preliminary work as should in their judgment precede
the actual projection, construction and establishment of such

system of sewerage ;
2. To construct, establish or acquire such local, district,
lateral, intercepting, outfall or other sewers, and all such con-
duits, drains and piping or other plants, and all such build-
ings, structures, works, apparatus or agencies, and to lay all
such mains and pipes, and to create or use, or create and use,
all such instrumentalities and means as they may deem expedi-
ent for carrying said system of sewerage so projected and
adopted as aforesaid into full effect;

3. To incorporate with said system of sewerage or other-
wise utilize for the purpose of this Act. so far as they may
deem expedient, any or all. existing public sewers or drains,
including storm water sewers or drains, in the town of Aber-
deen, and an.y or all of their apparatus, either in their present
condition or with such repairs, modifications or changes as said
Commissioners may see fit to make, and to condemn, close up,
abolish or destroy in their discretion any or all such existing